The itemization in this zone is pretty great, the only thing I can think of that is missing besides a 2nd bracer are the effects of searfire and crude earthen runes. You get both of these effects from adept gear but lose them if you upgrade to the hate drops.
For wizard I would think 3% crit > +10 evocation skill, which i think is 1% bonus dmg? So a lvl 35 adept wep isn't upgraded in hate and maybe not at all until you get crit from a 225k charm, these effects being on items from hate would be a nice hold over till the charms are farmed and let casters/healers let go of more low lvl adept drops.
The caster quest wep could drop the +evo and get searfire and probably be a lot more appealing for necros and maybe enc as well who don't use the evo as much.
Band of cleansing flame would also be a nice spot for it, it has +alt for healers but little appeal for the int casters on it.
The new drop rate for armor seems low. I'm still missing 2ish armor drops on each of my toons and they all have 300+ aa worth of farming done in this zone and a good chunk of that was during the prenerf drop rates. I think bumping the drop rate and increasing the amount of exp required to lvl the gear up would be a better solution, so people can get the gear but have to take longer to make it fully powered, this lets them do other things than farm hate trash looking for 1 random drop.
Did relics get removed or drop rate nerfed? They were dropping fairly often but I haven't seen any in a few clears.
Still think bosses could use a shorter repop or a variance, if you don't play in the AM you will basically never see a boss in this zone.